Paraguay at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Paraguay at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Flag of Paraguay.svg
IOC code PAR
NOC Comité Olímpico Paraguayo
Website www.cop.org.py  (in Spanish)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors11 in 7 sports
Flag bearer Julieta Granada [1]
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Paraguay competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1968, Paraguayan athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, but did not attend the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the nation's partial support for the US-led boycott.

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Paraguay Olympic Committee (Spanish : Comité Olímpico Paraguayo) confirmed a team of 11 athletes, six men and five women, to compete in seven sports at the Games. [2] It was the nation's largest delegation sent to the Olympics without the men's football squad since 1984, and the first with a highest percentage of women in its history.

The Paraguayan roster featured five returning Olympians; two of them attended their third Games as the most experienced competitors, including table tennis player Marcelo Aguirre, and freestyle swimmer Benjamin Hockin, who represented Great Britain as a member of the relay squad on his Olympic debut in Beijing eight years earlier. Meanwhile, three other athletes competed at their maiden Olympics in London: single sculls rower Gabriela Mosqueira, Hockin's fellow swimmer Karen Riveros (women's 100 m freestyle), and tennis star Verónica Cepede Royg. World-ranked golfer Julieta Granada was selected to carry the flag for Paraguay in the opening ceremony, joining with rower Rocio Rivarola as the only females in the nation's history to accept the role. [1]

Paraguay, however, failed to earn its first Olympic medal, since the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where the men's football team took the silver.

Athletics (track and field)

Paraguayan athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): [3] [4]

Key
Track & road events
AthleteEventFinal
ResultRank
Derlis Ayala Men's marathon 2:39:40136
Carmen Martínez Women's marathon 2:56:43115

Golf

Paraguay has entered two golfers into the Olympic tournament. Fabrizio Zanotti (world no. 147) and Julieta Granada (world no. 135) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for their respective individual events based on the IGF World Rankings as of 11 July 2016. [5] [6]

AthleteEventRound 1Round 2Round 3Round 4Total
ScoreScoreScoreScoreScoreParRank
Fabrizio Zanotti Men's 70746867279−5=15
Julieta Granada Women's 71697678294+10=44

Rowing

Paraguay has qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Olympics at the 2016 Latin American Continental Qualification Regatta in Valparaiso. [7] [8]

AthleteEventHeatsRepechageQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Arturo Rivarola Men's single sculls 7:29.233 QFBye7:17.126 SC/D7:41.436 FD7:18.3424
Gabriela Mosqueira Women's single sculls 8:27.394 R7:59.322 QF7:54.495 SC/D8:22.845 FD7:44.6219

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Shooting

Paraguay has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission to send a men's double trap shooter to the Olympics, signifying the nation's comeback to the sport after an eight-year hiatus. [9] [10]

AthleteEventQualificationSemifinalFinal
PointsRankPointsRankPointsRank
Paulo Reichardt Men's double trap 10622Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

Paraguay has received a Universality invitation from FINA to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics. [11] [12]

AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Benjamin Hockin Men's 100 m freestyle 50.2644Did not advance
Karen Riveros Women's 100 m freestyle 59.0039Did not advance

Table tennis

Paraguay has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission to send two-time Olympian Marcelo Aguirre in the men's singles to the Olympic table tennis tournament. [13]

AthleteEventPreliminaryRound 1Round 2Round 3Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BM
Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Rank
Marcelo Aguirre Men's singles Flag of Australia.svg  Powell  (AUS)
W 4–0		Flag of Poland.svg  Dyjas  (POL)
L 0–4		Did not advance

Tennis

Paraguay has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission to send London 2012 Olympian Verónica Cepede Royg (world no. 136) in the women's singles into the Olympic tennis tournament. [14] [15]

AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BM
Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Rank
Verónica Cepede Royg Women's singles Flag of Romania.svg  Niculescu  (ROU)
L 2–6, 3–6		Did not advance

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